Tobias Lindholm Fights “The War” in Afghanistan

Less than 24 hours after his oft-collaborator Thomas Vinterberg landed his next directing gig, Screen Daily reports that Tobias Lindholm will begin lensing The War (Krigen) sometime next year – the Danish filmmaker’s third outing as a director after festival hits R and A Hijacking. The trade mentions that Lindholm is reteaming with his muse actor Pilou Asbæk, he’ll play a solider for what is being coined as trilogy of “desperate men in small rooms.” Nordisk Film Production’s Tomas Radoor and René Ezra who produced Lindholm’s pair of films are back on board as producers.

Gist: Covering themes of “democracy, violence, the cost of war and the rules of the game”, this is a military action drama set in Afghanistan.

Worth Noting: Having grossed almost half a million theatrically in the U.S., his last film A Hijacking will certainly be mentioned in the same breath as the upcoming Captain Phillips.

Do We Care?: Huge fans so far of his films R (which could be paired with A Prophet) and A Hijacking (which recalls of the open-ocean claustrophobia found in Das Boot) I’m expecting his third film, to be somewhere along the intensity we might have found in The Hurt Locker. We willing sign up for this draft.